Some 95% of men with an advanced degree said it was “essential” that their partner was “good looking” versus 77% of those with a high school education or less, and 84% of those men said it was essential that their partner was slender versus just 12% of those with a high school education or less. A depressing confirmation of the worst gender stereotypes that suggests the dating game has not progressed much in the last 100 years? But it may go back even further than that, back to a time when social status (in a modern sense) was not important, Frederick says.